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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2015 6:23:04 GMT
I love the honeycomb effect you have created using the bubble wrap
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Post by Leonor (of Eleanor Shadow) on Mar 8, 2015 12:39:15 GMT
I love the honeycomb effect you have created using the bubble wrap I second that! Can't wait to see the finished object
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Post by sonia on May 12, 2015 17:21:13 GMT
I have lots of odd amounts of unlabelled wool yarn. I have used the "burn" test to check that it is wool, but does anyone have any way of telling if it will felt, other than crocheting up a sample of each ball & trying to felt it ! My experiments so far, in using it for embellishment & for felting it into vessels, havent been successful. I was hoping there is a short cut to checking if it is superwash or not.
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Post by MTRuth on May 12, 2015 18:00:32 GMT
Can you try putting small pieces in a lingerie bag and putting it through the wash cycle? If you measure and make them all the same size, you should be able to see if they shrink after washing by measuring length again.
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Post by Frances on May 12, 2015 23:59:17 GMT
Also yarn is different from pencil roving - yarn is twisted into several strands and I think I saw somewhere that for it to felt it would have to be taken apart strand by strand - because of the twisting it would not felt to something else.
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Post by Shepherdess on May 13, 2015 0:57:38 GMT
I use yarns on felt and a lot depends on the type of yarn and the twist. the smoother the yarn and the tighter the twist the harder to get it to felt in. You need to bridge it. Use a tiny bit of the roving you are trying to attach it to, lay it over the yarn and then felt. When I say tiny I mean just a few fibers so it will not ever be seen as going over the yarn.
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sonia
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Post by sonia on May 13, 2015 17:28:28 GMT
Thank you for yr suggestions, which I will try. For embellishment, I usually use tiny bits of background wool to secure the yarn, but I wanted to try the crocheted bowls which you felt ( in the washing machine I think) after crocheting. You can get a really nice surface depending on the crochet stitch you use. I am always looking for things to crochet in the evening or on journeys but prefer felted items ! .
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Post by Shepherdess on May 14, 2015 12:32:27 GMT
the same applies really the smoother and tighter the twist on the yarn the harder it is to for the fibers to move and migrate and lock into other fibers. I would think a low twist single would work best.
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